Jared Sleeper on Which Software Companies Will Survive the "SaaSpocalypse"

The start of the year has been an absolutely brutal one for software companies. There’s a big fear that the rise of AI and advanced coding models will pull the rug out from this industry. But even before these AI fears, software companies were seeing their growth slow. So how does the business actually work? And more importantly, what types of companies will actually survive the “SaaSpocalypse”? (Or maybe “the CaSaaStrophe”?) On this episode, we speak with Jared Sleeper, a longtime software investor who is now a partner at Avenir. We talk about the history of software, the evolution of business models, and where the threat is most acute. He also talks about why investors are so nervous, and their fears that in the long term many of these companies will be worth zero, while in the short term, they’re not even making much money on a GAAP basis. Read more: Private Software Companies Release Earnings Early to Calm AI NervesSubscribe to the Odd Lots NewsletterJoin the conversation: discord.gg/oddlotsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• 2:36Joe Weisenthal?

  Hello and welcome to another episode of the Odd Lots Podcast. I'm Joe Weisenthal.

• 2:41Tracy Alloway?

  And I'm Tracy Alloway.

• 2:42Joe Weisenthal?

  Tracy, we're recording this February 11th and IGV, the software ETF, down another 3% today.

• 2:50Tracy Alloway?

  It has been ugly in software. Everyone's throwing around the term SaaS apocalypse.

• 2:55Joe Weisenthal?

  SaaS apocalypse.

• 2:56Tracy Alloway?

  I mean, the great thing about SaaS is there are a lot of things that rhyme with it and a lot of homonyms. So you can, you can make all those puns.

• 3:02Joe Weisenthal?

  SaaS trash.

• 3:02Tracy Alloway?

  Yeah, exactly. SaaS is trash, whatever. But I'm looking at the share price of Salesforce.

• 3:08Joe Weisenthal?

  Oh, yeah.

• 3:08Tracy Alloway?

  In particular, because I always think of Salesforce as sort of like emblematic.

• 3:12Joe Weisenthal?

  The poster child.

• 3:13Tracy Alloway?

  Yeah. Poster child of like a software company that I'm not really sure what they do. But yeah, it's, it's just ugly.

• 3:21Joe Weisenthal?

  It's basically been cut in half, hasn't it, since its peak, like in early 2025? Right now it's 18484.

• 3:28Tracy Alloway?

  And it's all your fault, Joe.

• 3:30Joe Weisenthal?

  It's all my fault. That's right. Because earlier in the year, after we got back from Christmas vacation or Christmas break, you know, around that, I'd seen everyone playing around with Claude Code and then I had to do it. We did an episode. And so people were like, oh, if Joe Weisenthal can like figure out Claude Code, that there must not be any value to any of these companies at all. There, you know, you mentioned Salesforce. That's far from the ugliest one I'm looking at. Atlassian, which makes a lot of like workforce productivity companies, like some Slack competitors and stuff. That was a $450 stock back in 2021. That's an $86 stock. So like, yeah, it's ugly. And yeah, as you said, everyone is realizing that if any old fool can write software, maybe these companies.

• 4:13Tracy Alloway?

  Yeah.

• 4:13Joe Weisenthal?

  They don't have much value.

• 4:14Tracy Alloway?

  I mean, I will just say it's not just software right now. So we're seeing this sort of rolling series of concerns where like every time AI does something or creates some new product, it hits a particular industry. So on Monday, it was the insurance industry, insurance brokers. And, you know, today, Wednesday, February 11th, I think it's some of the like stockbroker firms.

• 4:38Joe Weisenthal?

  And you, all you have to do is just say AI industry. And there's a, you know, it's really, there's a lot of anxiety, but there's something that like doesn't make any sense to me about this or the thing that I'm wrapping my head around. It's like, sure, any of us could easily like write some software, but like writing software is a cost center for these companies, right? If you're Salesforce and you can trivially reduce the cost of building software, that's also a benefit for you. And there's a lot more to a software company than just code generation, because there's all kinds of, you know, network effects and links into this. It's like a software company is clearly more than just code. And so the fact that maybe code can be generated a lot cheaper does not scream to me like, oh, these companies are worth less than they used to.

• 5:19Tracy Alloway?

  Sure, but at the same time, they've been pricing, their pricing is based on that assumption, right? Like that there is no competitor for what they're doing. And suddenly you might have an in-house competitor.

• 5:31Joe Weisenthal?

  Absolutely. But, you know, it's like network effects and do companies want to start like building their own like payroll software? Anyway, I have a lot of questions about this sell-off. And to your point.

• 5:41Tracy Alloway?

  No, no, no. This is you doing like penance for causing, causing the sell-off.

• 5:48Joe Weisenthal?

  All right. Let's talk to someone who actually might be able to answer some of these questions. For us, we're going to be speaking to someone who's been in the software space, an investor in the software space for a long time, recently put out a great deck, really diving into SaaS, the SaaS apocalypse and what kinds of companies are thriving and what kinds of companies were struggling, even before everyone started talking about AI code generation and all that. We're going to be speaking with Jared Sleeper. He is a partner at Avenir, which does a growth investing private company. So Jared, thanks for coming on Odd Lots.

• 6:18Speaker 06

  Yeah, my pleasure. Excited to be here.

• 6:20Joe Weisenthal?

  Why are we talking to you just, you know, for our listeners? Apparently this is your first time on a podcast, which is crazy. But why are we telling you? Give us a little bit about your background, investing in software and understanding the space.

• 6:30Speaker 06

  Yeah, my pleasure. So I think one thing that makes me a little bit different in the investor world is that I've spent time investing in early-stage startups, public companies, and everything in between. So I spent a chunk of my career at an early-stage venture fund in Boston called Matrix Partners, working with an OG SaaS investor named David Skok. And I was also at Co2, where I ran public software. And so I've kind of had this experience across the spectrum, from ground-floor startups to looking at the big public companies, which I've done for the last 10 years.

• 6:57Joe Weisenthal?

  Perfect guest.

• 6:58Tracy Alloway?

  Perfect guest. So give us some color on the mood in software at the moment. Are people like, I don't know, hunkering down in their bunkers? How bad is it?

• 7:06Speaker 06

  Yeah, I get texted constantly from folks on the buy side, just retrenching. I can't believe this is happening. Can it go lower? I keep saying that. It's the 100th time I've bought the dip. You use the SaaSpocalypse like "cassstrophy" is my...

• 7:20Joe Weisenthal?

  Cassstrophy is a good one.

• 7:22Speaker 06

  It's definitely one of those moments. And we were talking about this a little bit earlier before starting. But one of the things about software that's really fascinating is there's very few folks, even on the buy side, who really understand how software works. It's one of those Rorschach test sectors where almost no one's logged into Salesforce and clicked around, much less been a Salesforce admin and understood the full complexity. And so when there's panic, there's not a lot of support for the stocks and people get scared very easily.

• 7:50Joe Weisenthal?

  Well, explain what this means. So for example, in a lot of companies, it's like you're saying that the people who invest or trade these stocks, they just know them as financial tables, basically. And they have some idea of their financials and some idea of their customer base, et cetera. But they don't have a great intuition for the product, unlike, say, people who use Instagram and therefore might have a feel about Meta, for example.

• 8:15Speaker 06

  Yeah, if you're an investor in Lululemon, you have a pretty solid conception of what that business is. You can go into the stores.

• 8:21Tracy Alloway?

  See-through yoga pants.

• 8:22Speaker 06

  Exactly. You can buy the product, ship it to yourself. If you're an investor in Viva, which makes CRM software for pharmaceutical reps, I bet you there's almost no investors in Viva who have ever been inside the product, even once, much less used it on a day-to-day basis and understood how it works.

• 8:37Tracy Alloway?

  So I'm going to go way back in time and start, I guess, the very beginning. But why is it that software like this, you know, payment management systems, whatever? Why were they historically not developed in-house? Like, how did we get this model where we have these huge software companies that are really, you know, to date have been really integral to a lot of businesses?

• 8:59Speaker 06

  Yeah, it's a great question. You know, back in the very early days of software, like back in the 70s or 80s, there was a lot done in-house. And we've seen a very clear mix shift over time towards using third-party software. And what it comes down to is the software was expensive to build and maintain. And there's this need for an ecosystem of integrations around it, which are also expensive to build and maintain. And so if you look at a software company, you can afford to have 1, 2, 3,000 engineers plus partnership teams, et cetera, all working to build the perfect piece of software for a given application. And then what's striking, and this will come up a lot more in this conversation, is not selling it for that much money, right? A lot of software companies report a stat, which is the share of our customers that pay us more than $100,000 a year.

• 9:43Speaker 06

  And $100,000 a year is less than half of the fully loaded cost of a software engineer. Right? And so the software model was build a product that can be applied to thousands of customers, and it's the same product for every customer, and then sell it to them for way cheaper than they could ever hope to build it themselves, even less than the cost of one employee.

• 10:02Joe Weisenthal?

  I'd love to just talk long-term software history, even before, you know, we think a lot about SaaS and these startups and stuff like that. But like, a lot of the big companies that we think of in software, especially like pre-Salesforce, whether it's like SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, obviously, aren't there a bunch of third-party companies whose job is to just like help install it for you?

• 10:24Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 10:24Joe Weisenthal?

  Like SAP install, and that'll be a totally separate company because it's so big and it's so unwieldy and complex that you actually, you can't just like install it yourself or it has to be customized or whatever?

• 10:35Speaker 06

  100%, and there's two parts to that, which I think are important. One is the integrations into your existing systems, right? A lot of big, old companies have old databases, old applications, and it's important for everything to be stitched together. So you need software engineers and, you know, consultants to go in and understand those existing systems and kind of get them linked up to the new systems. But the other one, which is probably bigger, is just people management and change management. You know, any software system is a combination of the code and all of the individual users who have learned how to use it. If you're trying to change out your CRM at a company, that means training every single sales rep on how to use the new CRM and getting it right. And if they

• 11:15Speaker 06

  get it wrong, then you lose deals that quarter. And so, you know, one of the kind of tropes in investing is if you see a company that's doing an ERP transition, ERP stands for enterprise resource planning, it's a kind of core software, accounting, you know, supply chain, et cetera, that company is probably going to miss its earnings over the next one or two quarters, because those transitions are so painful. And so, yes, there's a big consulting complex around it that does its best to come in and parachute in the talent that's required to make those transitions smooth. And that tells you something about what makes software so sticky, or at least has historically.

• 11:49Tracy Alloway?

  It's third-party agents all the way down, I feel. But actually, on this note, so we hear the integration point brought up a lot. And I think the very first episode we did on Claude Code, we talked a little bit about it as well. But like, if you have something like Claude Code, where you can just give it permissions to make changes to your computer, does some of that integration expertise actually start to go away? Because presumably, we are going to get AI, I would assume, at some point, given the rate that it's developing and improving, that we'll be able to do this, like plug itself into various systems.

• 12:23Speaker 06

  Yeah, 100%. I think the challenge of writing the code for the integrations is going away. That's not the bulk of the challenge for majority of integrations. It's about really deeply understanding the prior system and how it maps to the new system. And the reality is, within most organizations, that's, that's a human problem. It's, hey, this column says "status 2004", what does that mean? Like, how does that map to the new system that we're building? So you have to go talk to someone and understand it. And so, there's certain types of integrations where I think they're effectively solved problems now, because you can write a quick, you know, write into chat into Claude Code and get a perfectly written piece of software to make it happen. And then there's others that are just fundamentally human problems, because the data doesn't exist in digital space.

• 13:09Joe Weisenthal?

  Let's talk more about that because really it is pretty extraordinary, the degree to which I, I don't know, it's the working code. I don't know if it's high quality code, but certainly these models can generate working code and it's just, it blows my mind whenever I use it. But talk to us a little bit more about from the perspective of various software vendors, and I'm sure there's a range about what they're selling and how much is it code versus how much is it other stuff and which ones are more exposed to the pure like code generation ability.

• 13:41Speaker 06

  Yeah, it's a great question. And you're 100% right. It's producing working code. And frankly, it has been for the last year or so. I built my first lovable app that was working in production about, about a year ago. And then it's even intensified in the last three months. Right? I think when people buy software, there's a set of things that they're buying. One thing that I think is important for everyone to understand is that open source software has been a thing and there have been free open source versions of almost any software you could buy for all of recorded history. There's actually some companies that are public that built their businesses packaging that open source software and adding a few custom features and then support on top of it. Because when a company is reliant on an open source database or a company like Elastic with its Elastic

• 14:23Speaker 06

  Search product, which is an infrastructure tool, and it breaks, they need someone to call, both for CIA reasons and because it can be very complex and technical and they need to quickly understand it. And so that has been a big part of the story historically is that need to, you know, have support. Another thing that you sell when you sell as a software vendor is what I call herd familiarity, which means everyone on earth knows how to use your software, which just simplifies the training and onboarding workflow. I'll give a few examples because I'm sure it's a new term for listeners since I made it up. You know, Zoom is a great business. Microsoft has been giving away a free version of the product forever in Teams. Why do people use Zoom? Because in certain industries,

• 15:05Speaker 06

  almost everyone knows how to use Zoom. They have their Zoom setup. They have their virtual background chosen. They're not going to fumble around for the first minute or two on the call. And that's well worth the $20 a month to have a Zoom plan. But that applies to lots of Other areas as well. So think about Microsoft Excel, for example. You might be able to use Google Sheets to do the same thing. But do you really want to retrain every person who comes in on the Google Sheet shortcuts versus the Excel shortcuts? It's not a good use of time, especially when the software is already so cheap. And so that's another plank in what people are buying when they buy software is the standardization and the knowledge that they'll be able to hire employees who have that. And then there's things like brand, again, the kind of ecosystem that comes around it. And so it really is more than just the raw code.

• 15:49Tracy Alloway?

  We've been joking about this, but the idea of software companies' value lying in being a scapegoat, essentially for when things go wrong, is kind of funny and dystopian, I think, in many ways.

• 16:00Speaker 06

  Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, it's a real fear, right? And the way I think about it is there are two arguments against software right now. One is the world is going to stay the same, but software is just going to get a lot cheaper over time now that it's cheaper to build. And I think there's no one who would argue that it's not gotten dramatically cheaper to build. For reasons that we laid out in our deck and we can talk through it more, we don't buy that argument. I don't buy that argument. But the second is the world's about to get really weird. And the way that knowledge work happens is going to change. And if we think out three, four, five years, who knows if there will even be customer support reps or sales reps or software engineers? And I think that's what's causing the kind of hit to the share prices lately is this terminal value concern.

• 16:42Joe Weisenthal?

  Yeah, it was interesting. So one of the companies that's been associated with the, what'd you say, catastrophe? One of the companies that's been caught up in this blue owl, the private investing firm, private credit. I read through their conference call and their CEO was like, not only do we not see red lights, not only do we not even see yellow lights, we actually see a lot of green lights, which I think is really interesting because it can fit with this idea of this year could be fine, next year could be fine, the year after that could be fine, and then the year after that could be zero. Or at least that's the anxiety that there's this terminal value. Talk more about that.

• 17:16Tracy Alloway?

  There's like a cliff risk, right?

• 17:17Joe Weisenthal?

  Yeah, that there's this cliff.

• 17:18Speaker 06

  Yeah, I think it's really helpful, you know, this is our second iteration of the deck. And so we kind of force ourselves to re-center on what actually happened since the last deck, right?

• 17:28Speaker 06

  There's a very clear pattern in software and what happened over the last five years, which is the pandemic, people freaked out at the beginning, but it was rapidly clear that it was an accelerant for SaaS as everyone tried to digitize their companies. And so you had a spike in the growth rate and net retention of the businesses. It peaked at just over 40% in 2021 for the median software companies. That's really nice annualized growth. And then there was a hangover and that slowed down. And we wrote 18 months ago that that reflected the sector sort of maturing. The adoption had just slowed down because most folks had adopted the software that they needed under the pressure of the pandemic. And so for the last few years after that, we saw this degradation in growth rates across the sector. By the beginning of last year, the median company was growing 18% instead of 40%.

• 18:13Speaker 06

  So you saw a pretty significant drawdown. What's fascinating is that if you look at the actual financial performance of the companies in the last year, it's been pretty good. That growth rate has held. It was 18% again in Q3. Net retention has also been consistent at about 110%. So that's revenue from existing customers over the same revenue from those customers the prior year. So there's not a churn issue developing or a lack of expansion within the customer base. And a lot of the companies are actually accelerating growth or guiding to accelerating growth. We have a chart showing the number of those companies has increased each quarter of the last three successive quarters. And so there's a lot going on right now with the terminal value, but it's very hard to argue that this is something that's happening today and showing up in the numbers. The thing is investors are sharp, right? And they're constantly looking for that.

• 18:57Tracy Alloway?

  Forward looking.

• 18:58Speaker 06

  Yeah, I mean, look at Chegg, right? Which went down very quickly in the aftermath of ChatGPT coming out. And that was completely correct, right? Investors were ahead of that. And of course, for the first few quarters, the management team of Chegg, you know, had their heads in the sand, but then it became clear that it really was existential to their business.

• 19:14Tracy Alloway?

  That's a fun chart.

• 19:16Joe Weisenthal?

  I thought I was looking at a typo. Cause I saw, wow, that was, that was a near a hundred dollar stock in February 2021. It is now a 61 cent stock. That's rough.

• 19:26Speaker 06

  And you have to give the markets credit. Like the second ChatGPT came out, people were like, this company's in big trouble. They didn't wait for it to hit the financial results. And so there is signal in what people think.

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• 21:40Tracy Alloway?

  I have a bunch more questions, but just briefly, where does data actually fit into all of this? Because the other thing we hear about AI is maybe the models don't matter that much, but it's the actual data that you have access to. And I imagine the customers themselves of SaaS companies, they have their own data. Do the SaaS companies have their own data as well? Can they build off of that?

• 22:01Speaker 06

  Yeah, it's a great question. And we're here at one of the world's biggest data companies. So very apt.

• 22:06Tracy Alloway?

  Full disclosure.

• 22:08Speaker 06

  Data is definitely something that gets more valuable in this world. If you think about a stylized AI model, it could have PhD level intelligence in a domain. But if you hired a PhD into your company and sat her down on her first day, she wouldn't be very useful, right? She would have to understand how the organization functions, where do things live? Do I trust this chart or that chart? I need access to the Google Drive. I need access to Slack. I need to spend some time reading up. And so we call this kind of context, right? It's all the extra information that an AI needs to get something done, no matter how intelligent it is. And we wrote about this in the chart in the deck, but there's a real question of who becomes that system of context. And you're right, a lot of the software companies do sit on a pool of very important data. Let's talk about

• 22:53Speaker 06

  Salesforce, for example, right? CRM is where you track the records of every customer you have, every prospect in your pipeline, all of your historic interactions with them, notes from sales reps on what's going on, the status of their account, their customer support requests. It's an incredibly complex piece of software for a large enterprise. And obviously, if you are an AI agent working within a company, you would need access to that in order to get almost anything done, right? But you need more than is there. You don't know what happened at the sales dinner last night unless the rep took really detailed notes. And I can tell you, one comment learning in software is they do not take very detailed notes.

• 23:31Joe Weisenthal?

  Especially at a sales party, right?

• 23:32Speaker 06

  Yeah, exactly. People assume that software management teams know exactly what's going on, but they're looking through really messy Salesforce data and doing their very best.

• 23:40Tracy Alloway?

  Now I'm imagining a sales agent being like, the Cabernet was exquisite at last night's party, just putting in all these irrelevant diary entries.

• 23:48Speaker 06

  Exactly. But a lot That context does live in human brains, you know? A sales rep meets a person at dinner, gets to know their kids, figures out what sports team they root for. And they're not automatically pumping all that into the CRM. And so there's this race to collect the information that an AI agent would need in order to actually take proactive action. And the software companies have a position there. But there's also this set of AI native startups that are coming in, building actual agents who are doing their own work to collect that context. And that's one of the battles that we saw, you know, kind of highlighted in our deck is whoever wins that has a chance to be a really valuable company.

• 24:25Joe Weisenthal?

  You know, I think about, and I think you talk about this in your deck, but when I think about software, I sort of have like, if there's a spectrum. You know, I think about Salesforce.com, which is a platform and there's third party developers that build on top of Salesforce. And they sort of offer everything. And then I think about something niche, like this is the company that makes point of sale software for dentist's office. And they went around by giving them free payment terminals and they joined Y Combinator. And, you know, they signed up 10,000 dentist's office and then they paid, those offices pay them $10 a month forever for access to that. You know, I'm just making it up, but things like that. Is there a side of the spectrum that's more at risk here?

• 25:09Joe Weisenthal?

  Is that spectrum legitimate way to think about the industry? Or is there threats on sort of wherever you look?

• 25:16Speaker 06

  Yeah, it's a great question. I mean, certainly in the world gets really weird scenario. It's not clear there's anywhere immune from threats, but it's important to think through what it looks like. I think what's most at threat is companies that serve enterprises with very customized software already, or software that takes a very heavy implementation. And the reason is if anyone's going to take advantage of this wave of technology to really, you know, advance and replace a core system of software, it's going to be the enterprises that have the resources and the customization needs. If you think about SMBs, you know, my, my dad runs our family's grocery store. It's been in the family for a hundred years and he just changed his point of sale for the first time in a few decades. And it was a Really messy process, took a long time.

• 26:01Tracy Alloway?

  Will your dad come on All Thoughts?

• 26:03Speaker 06

  Yeah, sure thing.

• 26:04Tracy Alloway?

  We love grocery episodes.

• 26:05Joe Weisenthal?

  Yeah, we'd love to do that episode.

• 26:06Speaker 06

  All about independent grocery. And, you know, he's certainly not going to sit down and vibe code himself a point of sale system and put the store on it. I can guarantee you that, nor will any dentist, right? There's a chance that someone comes along with a cheaper version, but, you know, I think that's not something he's going to switch to anytime soon. He doesn't want to go through that pain for another few decades to come, right? And so it really is, you know, kind of company by company. Like, I'm doing this exercise right now on X where every day I look at a different software company and just think hard about what will AI look like for this company? And it's really interesting when you press. I'll give an example, like DocuSign, which I think to most investors would seem like an incredibly simple, easy piece of software, right?

• 26:50Speaker 06

  It's an e-signature software, we've all experienced it. DocuSign has more employees today than OpenAI and Anthropic combined.

• 26:56Tracy Alloway?

  Oh my god.

• 26:58Speaker 06

  Which is a crazy stat and probably reflects that labor is inefficiently allocated across the market. But when you actually double click into what DocuSign does, there are ways in which it's very complicated, right? Understanding the signature regulations in every country around the world, what does it take for a signature to be legally valid? Most of its signatures are done as an API, so folks are integrating it into their own applications. And there's a benefit to using DocuSign, which is the brand. People have been giving away free e-signature software for a very long time, but if you're a company of a certain esteem, you want to make sure your customers trust what they're signing. And if they're getting a contract from you, you'd much rather say DocuSign than XYZ sign that someone vibe coded, right? And so I think it's really important to look company by company.

• 27:43Speaker 06

  It's definitely a stock picker's market where there's some that are either relatively immune or have a chance to benefit, and there's others that could be in real trouble.

• 27:52Tracy Alloway?

  So is the argument the bull case for software, or at least the non-sudden death case for software? This idea that like, okay, if you have a software company that's producing, I don't know, like DocuSign, you're able to sign documents digitally and track them and share them and all of that. You can build more quickly and more efficiently off of that base model and provide like new versions, new customizations for customers. So I could do DocuSign for dentists, just to stick with that example. I don't know what specific needs dentists would have. I don't know, maybe marking up like teeth or something. Yeah. And then I can do like DocuSign for doctors and DocuSign for sales agents or whatever and just keep going.

• 28:36Speaker 06

  Yeah, I think that's right. I actually kind of think of it as there's three cases. There's the software gets wiped out case. There's the not much happens to software case. And then there's the bull case where the software companies capture a lot of value. I think it's a little different than them adding a lot of features and functionality. Frankly, I think a lot of software products today are pretty mature. There's a thousand engineers working on them for 10 years and they've built not all, but most of the things that you'd want to build with today's technology. But with agents, there's ways to automate a big chunk of the work. So one software company that's done this very well is Intercom. Intercom sells customer support software. It's those little widgets on the bottom right hand corner of websites. They were the creators of that. They had a nice business, but then

• 29:18Speaker 06

  they got very aggressive about building out an AI product called Finn, which answers customer support queries on its own. And they've, I think they've mentioned that it's almost 100 million of ARR now on a base that was, you know, like 300 million of ARR or something like that. And so they've really re-accelerated their business by building an AI native tool that actually solves the work, not just a tool that, that not just kind of exists as a tool that humans use. And so, yeah, I think that's like the mega bull case, right? I think about it like almost a transition from brick and mortar retail to e-commerce, where you have a brand new way of doing business and you have a bunch of legacy companies and some of them will probably just exist as they always have. Others

• 30:02Speaker 06

  can benefit from the change and add new business lines. You look at Walmart's share price. It's done amazingly well at incorporating e-commerce into its business. And then there's going to be some that are like Sears and go away.

• 30:13Tracy Alloway?

  That's funny. Sears always reminds me, my dad loved Sears because he always said the parking lot was empty when he goes to the shopping mall. So he always went through Sears. Anyway. So I understand like the cost argument. It brings down the cost of code. Maybe you have fewer employees or whatever. But where does growth actually come from in that world? How are you expanding your customer base?

• 30:34Speaker 06

  Yeah, you're really going to them and saying, we are replacing human labor. And there's a different pricing paradigm now. You used to think of us as something you paid, you know, 20, 30, 40, $50 per seat per month for as a tool for your employees, almost as if, you know, your employees are artisans and they're getting a toolkit to work with. And now we're just selling you an employee or the results of an employee. So, you know, we will sell you customer support tickets getting closed out for 50 cents or a dollar per ticket. And you can do the math of what it would cost you for the human to do that, or what it would cost you for AI to do that. And we'll be cheaper, but we're also dramatically increasing what you pay us because, you know, we're cutting into a completely different stream.

• 31:19Speaker 06

  And so that's what I think it looks like. We see a lot of exciting examples in the startup space of companies that are getting much, much higher pricing than they ever would have.

• 31:27Joe Weisenthal?

  This is a totally new pricing model for software. We actually just recorded another episode and they, the guest teased at that. But talk to us about, so it's like results-based pricing? Talk to us about it.

• 31:37Speaker 06

  Yeah, it's results-based pricing. There's a lot of questions on how it'll ultimately shake out. Fundamentally, what these companies are doing is they are reselling intelligence. Right? The core model vendors, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, have created a way to get elastic intelligence. And if you have the right data and you can put the right harness around it, you can now sell that to your customers. What's an open question is, how do you price that relative to the intelligence? So I was talking to someone this morning who said they think 50% gross margins on intelligence are about right. But we see a lot of variance in how startups are doing it today. Some are getting 80% gross margins on top of the model vendors. Others are getting 20%. But what's absolutely true in any case is if you're able to do that,

• 32:22Speaker 06

  you get much, much higher pricing in total dollars than you did before, orders of magnitude in some cases.

• 32:27Tracy Alloway?

  But just to be clear, like the cost savings, it can't be priced so high that the company that's using the software to produce these outcomes like isn't saving money. Right? That's the balancing act.

• 32:40Speaker 06

  100%. But I think if you think about, when we talked about this a little bit earlier, think about where software pricing was already, right? You know, Think about Salesforce, you know, at the elite tier, you know, eighty, ninety, a hundred dollars per user per month. So for round numbers, say a thousand dollars per user per year. For sales reps who could be making on average two hundred fifty, three hundred thousand dollars per year. If you have a technology that can come in and replace a sales rep, you can charge fifty thousand dollars, still give the customer a five X ROI, and then you've effectively fifty Xed your take rate on that revenue. And so that's the exciting opportunity that that's what has people excited in startup land, for sure. If you talk to folks from Silicon Valley, they are foaming at the mouth about the opportunity to really expand tech

• 33:23Speaker 06

  spend in this way. And that's also the opportunity for the software companies that get it right.

• 33:28Joe Weisenthal?

  There must be another risk, too, which is that if you could sort of resell intelligence at, say, an eighty percent gross margin, then for the model makers themselves, they're like, well, why do we just want to be, this is gonna sound weird, why do we want to be the dumb intelligence, right? And that's sort of like, we don't, they use it, we don't want to be the dumb pipe. And we saw that like in the cloud era, right? The Asias and the Google Cloud and the Amazon one, they didn't want to just be commodity cloud and they started building like medical features. They wanted to differentiate themselves. So it must be a risk for the companies reselling intelligence that it's so lucrative. And then, like, how are you thinking about the core model makers themselves?

• 34:07Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 34:07Joe Weisenthal?

  And how they're thinking about expanding into some of these fields rather than just piping in intelligence for them?

• 34:13Speaker 06

  Well, look, like in any situation, they're gonna have to make decisions, right? So in Amazon, you know, built AWS, they had to decide, where are we gonna press and where are we not? Are we gonna sell database software? Or are we gonna let other vendors do that on top of us? They kind of made those decisions as it went out. What's really interesting is if you look at the foundation model vendors, they have been racing towards the application layer. Both Claude Code and CoWork and OpenAI Codex are applications that people download and use, right? And I think that reflects this understanding that there is value in getting the users used to using your application.

• 34:48Joe Weisenthal?

  Yeah.

• 34:49Speaker 06

  Otherwise, as you know, you may, you risk being an API that's commoditized. People switch back and forth between you and that kind of application vendor has that control.

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• 36:37Tracy Alloway?

  So, one of the advantages that software has is like this network effect, comfort, software as a security blanket for management, right? But at the same time, people are getting really comfortable with AI, like telling them everything. And I keep thinking, like, if part of the sales pitch for software is like this sense of comfort, but then AI is rapidly becoming the thing that you talk to for everything, does it eventually just become a portal for doing all these different things?

• 37:12Speaker 06

  It's a really interesting question, and this is where there's probably the biggest disparity between how enterprise buyers think and how humans think, right? I'm sure you guys have seen Claudebot and the kind of rise of this, you know, open source agents that people are deploying for themselves, giving them access to everything, their whole computer, et cetera.

• 37:30Tracy Alloway?

  That's Joe.

• 37:31Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 37:31Joe Weisenthal?

  No, I didn't install, I didn't install Claudebot.

• 37:34Tracy Alloway?

  Oh, you didn't?

• 37:34Joe Weisenthal?

  No.

• 37:35Speaker 06

  I'm getting mine set up on a Mac mini with a hammer next to it.

• 37:37Tracy Alloway?

  Wait, I'm really curious, why not? Because of this issue?

• 37:40Joe Weisenthal?

  Yeah, because of that, and it just seemed like a potential waste of tokens and stuff.

• 37:44Speaker 06

  Yeah, and then it turned out that for a while on Moltbook, which was the social media, for all of the, all the APIs were available in a public facing database that anyone could go read. And so it was like a completely open system that had to get fixed. And so, you know, enterprises really do worry about this stuff, and they worry about it for a good reason. I'll give you another really interesting example. So there's a bunch of startups that help you record Zoom calls and transcribe them. All of those Zoom calls then become legally discoverable because they're transcribed somewhere. And so you have VCs in Silicon Valley who will refuse to use them, and you have other firms that are all in and recording everything that happens across the board so that they can upload that into AI as context. I think it's a really, it's a really great point, you know? And one of the things that makes me wonder is companies that are willing to skirt the

• 38:29Speaker 06

  rules or, you know, play fast and loose will be moving much faster over the next two or three years. And one of the reasons big incumbents struggle is because they actually do have to care about this stuff. They have stuff to protect. They don't want to be sued. They can't handle a major breach, and startups are able to just move faster, given that.

• 38:47Joe Weisenthal?

  So every time software stocks sell off with this, and people say, oh, they might go bargain hunting, and they say, what's cheap? And what baby is being thrown out with the bathwater? Someone always, a bunch of people is like, yes, they look cheap, but have you considered a stock-based compensation? And it turns out that these companies are not nearly as profitable once you factor this in. There was a very interesting note from Barclays, I think it was, I think it was Barclays. It's very interesting. And it said, "Our European investors are always asking about SBC. Our American investors only ask when there's a crisis." Something about the difference between Europeans and Americans. I thought that was a fascinating sociological observation. Tell us, like, how should we think about the cost?

• 39:29Joe Weisenthal?

  Because, again, if code generation is a cost base, presumably, these software companies don't need as many employees either, and they could pair back others. So talk to us about how we're thinking about the costs inside the software company.

• 39:41Speaker 06

  Great question. And, yeah, I mean, certainly theoretically true, right? But aside from Elon cutting 80% of Twitter X's headcount, we really haven't seen any companies take the pill and kind of realize the benefits of that. The SBC debate has been going on for a long time. I've had it ad nauseam over the course of my career. It's a real expense. You're issuing your employees' stock. They value it like cash. Many of them auto-sell it the day it vests for them. And I think what the problem that it creates for software companies is they, the management teams, are addicted to reporting non-GAAP, which excludes the impact of SBC. And so if you are an entrepreneur who founded a software business, who's technical, hasn't really ever cared that much about the financial side,

• 40:26Speaker 06

  you're a product person, you may think that you've been doing a good job of being a profitable company because your CFO is telling you, well, we're at a 25% non-GAAP operating margin. That's pretty good. When the reality is, you're running break even, which is a very common state of affairs. We looked at the whole universe, and the median public software company has a 5% non-GAAP net income, or GAAP net income margin, which is not enough to value the companies on. And so it creates this dynamic where, you know, yes, there's this terminal value concern, which is by far the most important thing, but there's also no floor, right? I was looking at the earnings report from Freshworks, which is a mid-market seller of customer support and IT management software. It trades at 1.5x EBITDA sales.

• 41:08Speaker 06

  If it ran at even a 10% GAAP margin, it'd be trading at 15x earnings, you know? That's, which is a pretty attractive place to be. You could get some value investors, maybe some European investors, interested in buying it there. But it doesn't have material GAAP earnings. And on their earnings call, there was no real, you know, sense of trajectory towards that. And you see the share price now.

• 41:31Joe Weisenthal?

  It's down 16%.

• 41:32Speaker 06

  Exactly. And like, the top-line results were actually pretty good. And so there's a real issue here on the financial side as well. It's incredibly disappointing to me that management teams haven't embraced this as a way to cut costs themselves, and I expect they will.

• 41:48Joe Weisenthal?

  Yeah, talk to us about this specifically. Are we going to see big layoffs across the SaaS space in the near term? And what do you think is the timeframe for that?

• 41:57Speaker 06

  Great question. I think we will. I think we've seen that management teams do respond to price signals. If you look at the history of the sector, it was in 2023 when there was a round of layoffs and companies showed margin, and then they've kind of resisted it for the last two years. The thing about it is layoffs can help you move faster, right? I think if you look within any company today, unfortunately, there is this spectrum of employees and how fast they've adopted AI, whether they're still doing things the old way or they're on Claude Code, Claude Cowork, kind of changing the way that they work. And the employees who are on the lower end are actually slowing you down as a company. They're not even zero marginal product. They're negative marginal product.

• 42:39Speaker 06

  There's just been such a change in how you work, especially in software development. And so I think management teams are going to realize that there's two benefits to actually doing layoffs, in addition to the obvious pain of it and the kind of human costs, which I never, you know, forget to discuss. But one is saving money and showing your shareholders you're financially disciplined and probably seeing your share price stabilize, especially if you're trading at some very low multiple. And the second is moving faster and also, almost as importantly, being able to pay your top performing employees. The war for talent in Silicon Valley has never been more intense. Right now, I was talking to a private company I invested in, and they're losing employees left and right to these high-growth AI companies who can afford to pay huge comp packages in both equity and stock.

• 43:25Speaker 06

  And you want to keep your good people. You don't want it, you don't, you want your, these AI companies to pluck away all of the best people and leave you with the folks who are relative Luddites. And so I do think we'll see this. It's very sad that that will have to happen, but it's the obvious path forward for the sector. And I think if done right, it accelerates innovation.

• 43:42Tracy Alloway?

  I have a tangential question on that note, which is whenever we talk about technological disruption, you know, people bring out examples of like, remember when Excel was basically actual people sat down with like papers in front of them doing the math? And those people didn't disappear when Excel got created, but they started doing new things.

• 44:06Tracy Alloway?

  I imagine a lot of people are very interested right now in alternative careers for basic commoditized coders. What do those actually look like?

• 44:15Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 44:16Tracy Alloway?

  I feel like you might have some insight here.

• 44:18Speaker 06

  The alternative, well, I think there's two ways to answer the question, right? There's like, what do you do if you want to stay a coder? And then there's what are the careers that are going to still exist over time, right? I think if you think about what's happening to coding, it reminds me a lot of civil engineering. And so it's kind of a funky example, but you know, civil engineers used to work pen and paper doing calculus. Will this bridge hold up or not? That's been obsolete for a very long time. All those calculations are done by a computer. They're kind of clicking and moving and they go on site, they collect some data, they talk to stakeholders and they're effectively project managing this computer that can do the physics part of their job for them. It's important that they understand the physics in case something looks strange, but they're not doing much physics, right? That's clearly where software engineering is heading in the near term and a lot of companies,

• 45:03Speaker 06

  it's already there. And these companies are still hiring software engineers because that job is valuable. And in fact, each individual software engineer is way more productive than they were before. And there's happily elastic demand for software, like we still are undersupplied with software in the world. And so there's quite a bit of room to go to add those. And so I'm not necessarily bearish on the demand for software engineers, at least for the next, you know, three to five years. Beyond that, if things get weird, hard to tell. But then for people more broadly, I think the best advice is just adaptability, you know, constantly trying and testing these tools, making sure you're staying at the cutting edge of them and then being aware of what's human, right? I think in like, in my work in venture investing, you know, there's a lot of data that comes

• 45:47Speaker 06

  out of human relationships that an AI wouldn't have access to, you know, an AI can't call its friend at another fund and ask how a company's doing, not yet at least, it has to make some friends first, right?

• 45:57Joe Weisenthal?

  They're talking about, they are talking to each other on Moltbook, right?

• 45:59Speaker 06

  They're talking to their Moltbook, yeah. So maybe if there's an AI agent from Sequoia and an AI agent from Andrisa.

• 46:03Joe Weisenthal?

  I was intrigued by that for about five minutes.

• 46:05Speaker 06

  Yeah. It's pretty fake. It was very evocative, but pretty fake.

• 46:08Tracy Alloway?

  Well, also there was that Wired article of the guy who like infiltrated as a bot and pretended to be a bot. It was pretty obvious.

• 46:15Joe Weisenthal?

  They're like, oh, why are we, let's create a new language just for us. They're not making new languages.

• 46:19Speaker 06

  Right. But yeah, I think, I think the rough mental model is if there was any effort to outsource your job to India.

• 46:25Joe Weisenthal?

  Yeah.

• 46:25Speaker 06

  That's a risk because that tells you that that job can be done by person, someone who's not physically present in a space. And, you know, if you like working on problems in isolation, not socially with other people, you know, grinding out math problems or little coding assignments, that's probably also a pretty tough place to be.

• 46:43Tracy Alloway?

  Yeah.

• 46:43Speaker 06

  It's gonna be a more social world.

• 46:44Tracy Alloway?

  This is something we've touched on before, which makes me kind of sad, which is the edge in the AI world becomes like sociability, right? And to some extent, we talked about this in the context of look, smack. I know you love it, Joe. I do not.

• 47:00Joe Weisenthal?

  Can I say two, two little observations from my time vibe coding in 2026 that are interesting? One is, I have zero technical background. I've been surprised by the speed with which I can build intuitions about when it's going off the rails, like when it's doing something that doesn't seem right. Like, I joke that vibe coding is just typing "make it better," press Enter over and over again, and then hitting Yes when it offers to do something. You actually can start to build an intuition fairly quickly, like when this doesn't make sense. And then the other thing, and this relates to your question of like trusting the AI. So one of the things I'm doing is I'm having a lot of documents get annotated, and I do that through the Claude API, which actually runs up the bills a little bit.

• 47:44Joe Weisenthal?

  And one thing, this API run was gonna cost like $100. And I stupidly asked Claude, I was like, is this a good thing? It's like, well, when you're done with this API, API run, you're gonna have this annotated asset that no one else has done, and that'll be very... It was sort of useless what I did, so you shouldn't...

• 48:00Tracy Alloway?

  It's selling itself to you, right?

• 48:02Joe Weisenthal?

  It was selling itself, it was like, oh, yeah, use the API, Joe, run this, like, annotate all these documents. It wasn't actually like a good use of my time, so you can't really always, uh, they're just gonna, they're gonna just sell these things. So Tracy asked about data and some... There's one other sector that I'm interested in. You see these companies like Moody's, or Fair Isaac, or S and P Global, that have an index. And they're getting, they're selling off too. And it's not like, this is another area where like it's, you know, people were fund managers for a long time unless things get really weird. The super are going to be like benchmarking themselves off of like the S and P 500 for a long time. Or lenders are going to be using the FICO for a very long time, et cetera.

• 48:44Joe Weisenthal?

  Intuitively would strike me as this would be a very hard thing for AI to replace.

• 48:49Speaker 06

  I share your intuition, right? I can't say I fully understand the sell off in these companies. I wonder if there's not some parts of their businesses that are more services or consulting heavy. That people are, there's often like combinations, right? Where like, I don't think anyone's suspecting that like, you know, the S and P 500 is going to be displaced as an index.

• 49:08Speaker 06

  Yeah, maybe. But look, we're in a world where folks are very happy to shoot first and ask questions later. Once AI risk comes out.

• 49:17Joe Weisenthal?

  Actually, going back to your hedge fund time, like, how much is it just the sort of the nature of hedge fund traders right now? Where there's very little stomach to take any downside risk and appear to look stupid for missing, you know, holding the bag here. And how much do you think that's contributing to some of these market moves?

• 49:35Speaker 06

  It's a great question. I won't speak to my fund because I think COTU and Tiger Cubs like it are a fairly small share of the overall market in dollars, right? But if you look at trading volumes, the pod shops Citadel, Bally Asney, Millennium are very large share of the volumes. And yeah, those people can't afford drawdowns, right? And the scary thing about this for them is because it's not fundamental. Because the companies aren't struggling themselves, they have no idea when it will stop, right? And so you're left predicting this thing and you're like, well, I bet my career that people are going to feel better about software companies in three to six months than they do right now. And you know, you're one OpenAI model release or Anthropic model release away from more fear. And so I do think there's a lot of short-termism right now and.

• 50:22Speaker 06

  There's all but again, I think we come back to the SBC point, but there's also no valuation support, no real valuation support, you know, in normal times, if companies were like this, they'd be buying back a bunch of their stock, shrinking their share count, issuing dividends. You know, I have a friend who works at a mutual fund where there's a lot of dividend funds that would love to buy dividend in companies growing 10 to 15% like a lot of software companies, but they're not, right? And so you've kind of lost the ability to kind of put an actual floor in underneath the valuations as a result of that.

• 50:50Joe Weisenthal?

  Jared Sleeper, thank you so much for coming on Odd Lots and explaining how software works.

• 50:54Speaker 06

  My pleasure. Super fun. Thanks.

• 51:09Joe Weisenthal?

  Tracy, I thought that was really interesting. I'm very fascinated with this idea that in the short term, most of these businesses are doing fine. In the long term, they might go to zero, but also in the short term, they're not really doing fine because actually if you on a GAAP basis, they're not making much money. I guess that sort of makes sense that they're all selling off right now.

• 51:29Tracy Alloway?

  Yeah, I keep thinking, this is probably a stretch, but I keep thinking back to that book Bullshit Jobs, remember? And like, the argument there is a lot of jobs exist, not because like people are doing anything specific, but because they're like providing some sort of social value in a way. So for instance, like you have a person who is essentially the designated scapegoat for senior management. And I keep thinking of, you know, business is basically an ecosystem of different players. So it might be that in the new AI world, the role of software companies just kind of changes, like their social role changes. And I don't know what the price or the valuation looks like on that.

• 52:12Joe Weisenthal?

  It still feels like to me. What do I know? I have no, I was gonna say something about how businesses are gonna buy, what do I know? I have no idea how businesses are gonna buy software in the future. I did think that was really helpful. Like, I really don't know anything about how the software business works generally, so I find that very helpful. One other interesting thing, though, and it may sort of speak to thinking about this risk, is just the idea that, like, even high-end software is not that much money, right? So if you have a salesperson who's making $250,000, what is $1,000 a year from Salesforce to do their job? Particularly, and then also given the fact that, you know, free and open-source software has existed for a long time, but still, you know, you want to pay an implementer for a company that, like, manages, et cetera. Getting

• 52:57Joe Weisenthal?

  from like here to there where, okay, AI really changes the nature of software buying, does feel like you have to get into, this is gonna be weird territory, but maybe things are gonna, I think things probably are gonna get really weird.

• 53:11Tracy Alloway?

  Yeah, I think that's a, that's a pretty good bet, right?

• 53:13Joe Weisenthal?

  Yeah, it's a pretty good bet at all.

• 53:14Tracy Alloway?

  Like, if you bet on weirdness, if there is a weirdness index, someone should build that.

• 53:18Joe Weisenthal?

  Weirdness index, yeah.

• 53:19Tracy Alloway?

  That would be a pretty good investment.

• 53:21Joe Weisenthal?

  Yeah.

• 53:21Tracy Alloway?

  All right. Shall we leave it there?

• 53:23Joe Weisenthal?

  Let's leave it there.

• 53:23Tracy Alloway?

  This has been another episode of the Odd Lots Podcast. I'm Tracy Alocke. You can follow me at Tracy Alocke.

• 53:29Joe Weisenthal?

  And I'm Joe Weisenthal. You can follow me at TheStalwart. Follow our guest Jared Sleeper. He's at Jared Sleeper. Follow our producers, Carmen Rodriguez at Carmen Armin, Dashal Bennett at Dashbot, and Cale Brooks at CaleBrooks. For more Odd Lots content, go to Bloomberg.com/oddlots for a daily newsletter on all of our episodes. And you can chat about all of these topics 24/7 in our Discord, discord.gg/oddlots.

• 53:53Tracy Alloway?

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